Alice's 30 km Run: Analyzing Distance and Speed

Alice's 30 km Run: Analyzing Distance and Speed

Secondary 3

Alice participated in a \(30\) km run last month.

The distance-time graph below represents her run from the start to the end.

  1. Using Alice’s speed, describe her run as shown in the graph above.
  2. What is Alice’s speed at \(5\) a.m.?
  3. Find the average speed of Alice’s run.
  4. Bella also took part in the same run as Alice. She started at the same time, ran at a constant speed and completed her run at \(0736\) h.
    1. Draw and label Bella’s graph on the given distance-time graph for Alice below.
    2. At what time did Alice overtake Bella?

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Answer:(b) \(11\frac{1}{9}\) km/h, (c) \(7.5\) km/h, (d)(ii) \(05 \ 15\)

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